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As seen on the Today Show!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This computer game was originally shown as one of the top games to buy on the Today Show. It is a great game for teens and adults. Combines fun, statagy and history. Beware, it can be addictive! hee hee.

Fun for All Ages

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big fan of Age of Empires, and it's a real time strategy worth playing. Great design, great historical bits at the start and end of levels, great soundtrack too, and the multiplayers always fun, especially on custom made scenarios. You get to play one of twelve ancient races, (Choson, Shang, Yamato, Babylonian, Hittite, Persian, Assyrian, Egyptians, Sumerian, Greek, Minoan & Phoenicians), pick berries, build houses, hunt animals, pay tribute to allies and fight enemies on foot, horse and elephant. The campaigns are fun too. The Egpytian campaign is a great introduction to the game for beginners, a great introduction to real time strategies, in fact. The other campaigns (for Babylonian, Greek and Yamato) are varied and fun. My favorites would have to be "Holy Man", where you have to convert yourself a civilization with a priest and "The Great Hunt", where you have to lead some warriors past all sorts of obstacles and suprises to an artifact. You can make your own campaigns, and download them online, so there's always new levels to play if you're interested. The cheats are also pretty funny, rocket launcher men in the stone age, cars, getting to "be" the animals, etc.

Definitely worth a look.

Fun game, no high requirements

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best classics game I've ever had. This game is released years ago, yet this game is still a fun game to play today.

This game's requirements are not high and this game can be installed on slower PCs or laptops. If you like this game, you may want to add the expansion pack available to enhance the features on this game.

What a game!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have had this game for 4 years.My dad brought it from America and I started playing it when I was 6.First it seemed to be boring but once I got older it got more fun.Now all of my friends are playing it and we all love it.It's the best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A great game that won't lose it's appeal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have had AOE for over a year now, and it is still the only computer game I ever play. I'm not going to spend an hour explaining what you can do with this game, because from what you've read from the other reviews, it would be redundant. But, even if AOE isn't as complicated and doesn't have the 3D graphics, when compared to the Sims in hours of fun and price, who wouldn't want a game that's just if not more fun and $30-$40 less expensive? Buy it now, you won't regret it! (Even though it IS a Microsoft game)

I've played this all night more times than I want to admit..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think of this game as the ultimate toy soldier set that I dreamed of as a kid- only the toys are alive and intelligent.

I've literally spent hundreds of hours playing this game , including more all nighters than I care to admit. If you are a military buff this game can become addictive. You can build whole empires here- either from scratch from the stone age, or with fully developed high middle ages technology (which includes gunpowder weapontry.) You have to build up the infrastructure for your empire- including farms, fisheries, mines, and timber. Then you have to build workshops and training schools. Only then can you concentrate on the right mix of cavalry, infantry, archers, and artillery. Just the complexity of the castles and walled towns you can build is fascinating. If this is not enough, you can also build up a navy for sea control, coastal bombardment, and amphibious landings.

Yet, it is never tedious, you really get a feeling that you are actually building up an empire- your empire for your subjects. And every single individual unit is fully and believably animated. A major advantage of Age of Kings over the earlier Age of Empires is that you can order your fighting units into set formations like squares and lines, instead of just sending a mob into battle. The interface here is unbelievable- the "giant" map actually has the feel of a huge extent of territory- enough for a kingdom or an empire.

I prefer this as a single player game- the program is smart and relentless enough to keep you constantly on your toes. Just try playing against 7 to 1 odds with no allies if you don't believe me....

Great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. It's going for $9.99 now, damn good deal. A lot of fun. Well worth ten bucks. Plays on lap tops. So you can have something to do at work. Wyatt Kaldenberg

Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is simply the most addictive game ever made. The game is best when played online against other people from around the world. Once you play online, you will want to pratice and pratice so you can be a known and not a rook or newbie..lol. I have played 4-5hour games. I love this game and all the people who play it, buy it, i'll love you too! ..lol Seriously, this game is awesome, buy it for multiple hours of fun.

Simulator Games.... This is exciting... more than others...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: March 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All these simulator games continue to come out but only one will remain less complicated. I called that Age of Empires. Don't know anything about the past of conquering and empires? Easy then. All you have to do for one easy game is attack the Greek if your the Egyptians and take over there government. Usually it is supposed to take a while and if you gain more points then the Greek, you'll be fine. Also you can play with a friend or with someone you don't know by using Zone.com from MSN, aka Microsoft. You can also do campaigns. Another thing you can do is be the Persians, Mongols, Chinese, Greek, Egyptian, Korean, even more or just create your own tribe and call it anything you want. The game isn't tough and for people like me who like the Conquering age, you'll like this game. Isn't like Civilization and Casear games which are complicated. So go ahead and buy Age of Empires today.
WARNING: Age of Mythology is pretty useless. The Gods make no sense. Most of the game is made up rather than Age of Empires. Try the expansion packs if you want more action from a game maker like Microsoft Games...

Perfect

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Age of Empires, Age of Kings, Age of Mythology series is definitely the best ever sires of real time strategy games. In all versions of the game you are allowed to control both the armies and economies of your nation. You can build buildings, creature soldiers or peasants, even priests. Your peasants you command to do the different menial tasks such as farming, mining, and building castles. While your armies roam the land either defending your peasants, sieging enemy castles, or raiding their peasants. Priest have the power to convert both peasants and soldiers. If you like being king of the world, this is for you. Finally, I just want to differentiate between the games. Age of Empires is the oldest of the games and should run on any computer, but I wouldn't recommend the game without either the Rise of Rome Expansion Pack or just buying the Age of Empires Gold Edition. These two correct many problems with the original Age of Empires. Next game up the latter for medium computers is Age of Kings (that's what I'm still playing.) It can run on just about any computer with sixty four megs of ram and a two hundred megahertz processor. I use it on a five hundred megahertz and a one point four gigahertz. Next game up is the Age of Mythology. This introduces a whole new realm of playing to the sires. This one you civilization chooses different gods to worship and is given power from them. Unfortunately you only get two really spectacular god powers each game and you can only use them once, but then it keeps the game to more strategy and less luck and wildcards. (It is fun to get the wildcards when you have them though!) This game should have a processor of I would say at least a six hundred and a graphics card at least thirty two megabytes; and lastly this is not the game for everybody. I still use Age of Kings/Conquerors not because of my computer, but because I don't like all the crazy stuff in Mythology; I think it distracts from the medieval battle tactics. Really choosing between Mythology and Age of Kings is just a matter of personal opinion. I'd say download both demos and try them both; or if you have the money to blow, buy them both. Either way I think you'll love both of them. Well that's all for me. This is just a general over view don't take my words as gold check out the specs and requirements yourself. I just wanted to help point you in the right direction.

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